Authenticating with Rest Service in Java/Groovy

Question

Goal

I am a newbie on Groovy and Drupal 7. My project is to create a node on Drupal 7 via REstfull services using Groovy language. I have setup Rest Server on Drupal 7 and checked with mozilla plugin Poster with sending some authentication and creation Post requests. It works perfectly fine.

Problem

However problem comes while establishing same process with Groovy/Java. I used HttpBuilder that basically works on top of Apache HttpClient .

In order to authenticate I need to send username/password to a /user/login URI. Next time I need to do something, such as a POST request ( eg create a Drupal node ), I need to use a different URI eg /node and somehow pass that auth data ( session_name and a session_id that Drupal sends back the first time) with that POST request => that currently does not seem to work:

401 Unauthorized: Access denied for user 42 "trader785876"

I Tried

• to copy cookies from the first (auth) request to the second
• to extract cookies from the first request, and set them in a header of the second
• to extract cookies from the first request, and set them in the POST parameters of the second, etc..

Answer 1

have you tried authenticating using the method here http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/doc/auth.html ?

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authClient.auth.basic 'myUsername', 'myPassword'
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